List of newspapers in Germany

The number of national daily newspapers in Germany was 598 in 1950, whereas it was 375 in 1965.[1] Below is a list of newspapers in Germany, sorted according to circulation as of early 2003 (magazines mid-2005; national subscription papers end 2008), as listed at ivw.de which tracks circulations of all publications in Germany.

The conservative leaning Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) has the highest reputation, its main competitors are the left-wing Süddeutsche Zeitung and liberal-conservative Die Welt.Handelsblatt is a financial newspapers published Monday through Friday. So was Financial Times Deutschland, which ceased publication in December 2012.
A Swiss German-language newspaper with high reputation is the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, sold at several shops in Germany with its international edition. Same is true for Austrian newspaper "Der Standard"

Esser, Frank, and Michael Brüggemann. "The strategic crisis of German newspapers." in David AL Levy and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, eds. Changing Business of Journalism and its Implication for Democracy (Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, 2010) pp: 39-54.